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Climate change, Corporate Governance, Deforestation, ESG / 21.08.2025

Brazil Devastation Bill second act – The Partial Veto by Lula is a pragmatical approach which however keeps concerns for the safeguard of the Amazon Rainforest

Notwithstanding the request by most international and local environmental organization for Lula to veto the full bill, the partial veto is however a pragmatical solution which was chosen by Brazil President Lula to avoid a stronger backfiring by the Congress which voted to approve the...

Corporate Governance, Deforestation, ESG, Mining / 04.08.2025

Will President Lula veto the ‘Devastation Bill’ taking into account environmental and social disasters as the one unleashed by Mariana and Brumadinho dam collapses?

Mariana Dam collapse is the Largest Environmental disaster in Brazil, and the largest environmental class action in the world. On November 5, 2015, the Mariana Dam Collapse entered Brazilian history as the largest mining-waste disaster in history, affecting 50 municipalities. On the occasion, 45 million...

Biodiversity, Climate change, Deforestation, ESG Rating / 24.07.2025

Brazil’s Devastation Bill – Licence to devastate the Amazon, the lungs of the Earth

On July 17, the Brazilian Congress approved Public Law 2159/211, often referred to as the "devastation bill." Many experts see this as the most significant rollback of environmental protections since the 1988 Constitution, which established modern environmental safeguards in Brazil. Although President Lula has 21...

Biodiversity, BLOG, Climate change, Deforestation / 29.07.2021

TODAY, July 29th IS EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY 2021

Today, 29thJuly 2021 we have reached the Earth Overshoot Day (EOD), the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. The term "overshoot" represents the level by which human population's demand overshoots...

Climate change, Deforestation / 11.12.2020

With the deforestation of the amazon rainforest surging, investors and governments make pressure to stop it

Earlier this month, the Brazil space agency has disclosed that in the last year the Amazon forest has reported the biggest deforestation scale since 2008 in terms of square km of forest loss. Environmental activists, investors and governments are raising their voices to ask for...

Climate change, Companies, Deforestation, Oil and Gas / 15.08.2020

Investors demand corporate financial statements to incorporate climate change risks

Investors fear that firms’ financial statements do not represent the real long-term outlook for many businesses as only a minority of them accurately incorporate climate change risks. The oil and gas company BP has cut $17.5 billion off the value of its assets, reflecting the material...

Climate change, Deforestation, Financial Institutions, Senza categoria / 12.08.2020

Local and international investors and authorities are pressuring Bolsonaro to fight deforestation

Bolsonaro has imposed a ban on forest fires during the dry season and arranged military operations against deforestation practices. This decree comes after pressure from financial investors, international companies and foreign governments on the need to improve Brazil’s environmental commitment and to stop deforestation, a practice that is...

Biodiversity, Deforestation / 10.08.2020

Deforestation and the Covid-19 pandemic: a two-fold connection

COVID19 has reaccelerated deforestation, with forest loss alerts increasing up to 77% compared to 2017-2019. As deforestation itself heightens the risk of future disease outbreaks, rural frontiers should be approached more holistically by taking into consideration the health of humans, animals and the planet. Despite a positive historical trend...

Climate change, Deforestation, ESG / 07.05.2020

Why investors are more than ever key players in forest preservation

The 2020 Global Forest Resources Assessment informs us about a consistently declining rate of deforestation, to be explained by diminishing deforestation coupled with natural forests expansion and afforestation. The African continent is however emerging as a key hotspot, and important ecosystems, such as the Congo Basin, are...

Climate change, Deforestation / 15.01.2020

Fires in Australia connected to climate change, despite denial by Prime Minister

Climate scientist Michael Mann is on sabbatical stay in Sydney, Australia where he studies the correlation between climate change and catastrophic weather events. Home to one some of the greatest natural wonders of this planet, like the Great Barrier Reef and lush temperate rainforests, Australia has...

Climate change, Deforestation / 11.01.2020

Worlds’ biggest Asset Managers are urged on climate change accountability

World's biggest asset managers are facing enormous pressure over the role they (do not) play on climate change. Public opinion, shareholders and governmental institutions are urging JPMorgan, Vanguard and BlackRock to substantially change their strategies over climate change. What the last two months of 2019 showed...

Deforestation / 30.08.2019

2019 is the year of fires: we need to save our planet from burning

Not only Amazonia: large parts of Earth are burning, and the problem might be bigger than it appears. Journalists have focused on the enormous devastation that is occurring in Amazonia this year: in comparison to last year, the number of fires in the region has enormously...

Deforestation, News / 21.03.2019

SVI endorses the call on companies to cut deforestation-related risks in global soybean supply chains

Since the late-2000s, agricultural expansion in Latin America has been supported through land clearing in Brazil’s Cerrado. Roughly 50 percent of Cerrado vegetation has been converted to agriculture and pastures with a rapid spread of deforestation and land conversion due to soy and other commodities. The industry's...